With Andrew McGregor.
Rachmaninov The Great Litany (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)
Andrei Papkov (bass), Kansas City Chorale, conductor Charles Bruffy
6.11 Faure Violin Sonata No 1 in A
Pierre Amoyal , Pascal Roge (piano)
7.05 Rachmaninov The Cherubic
Hymn (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)
7.30 Dohnanyi Suite: The Veil of Pierrette
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
8.05 Weber Jubel Overture
Philharmonia, conductor Neeme Jarvi
8.32 Hoist King Estmere Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia, conductor Hilary Davan Wetton Editor Andrew Lyle
Peter Hobday continues his survey of Haydn's London symphonies.
Mendelssohn Overture for Wind
Instruments, Op 24
LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado
9.11 Beethoven Choral Fantasia in C minor, Op 80
Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado
9.30 Haydn Symphony No 98 in B flat Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Producer Tony Cheevers Discs
With Mairi Nicolson.
Artist of the Week: Patrick Gallois (flute)
Paganini Caprice in E, Op 1 No 1
10.03 Rossini Overture: Signor Bruschino - Orpheus Chamber Ensemble
10.10 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor - BBC Philharmonic, conductor Vassili Sinaisky
10.55 Godard, arr Pierre Berceuse (Jocelyn) - Patrick Gallois (flute), London Festival Orchestra, conductor Ross Pople
11.00 Ravel Sheherazade - Regine Crespin (soprano), Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor Ernest Ansermet
11.20 Khachaturian Flute Concerto - Patrick Gallois, Philharmonia, conductor Ion Marin
With Peter Paul Nash.
Conflict and conquest; wide, open spaces; the common man; a melting-pot of nations - these themes appear repeatedly in American cinema and literature. But they are also amply reflected in American music over the past century, especially in that most epic of forms, the symphony. Harris Epilogue to Profiles in Courage: JFK
Louisville Orchestra, conductor Robert Whitney
Ives Symphony No 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Producer Ray Abbott
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm
From St John's, Smith
Square, London.
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) Louis Couperin Suite in D minor Froberger Suite No 12 in C
Forqueray Suite No 4 in G minor Repeated next Sunday 6.30pm
BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Spain
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka ,
Margaret Price (soprano) Mathias In Arcadia
Strauss Freundliche Vision; Standchen; Morgen; Heimliche Aufforderung ; Ruhe, Meine Seele ;
Cacilie Walton Symphony No 1
A concert given in Palau de la Musica, Barcelona
Housman Settings
Poet AE Housman has been a fertile source of inspiration for several generations of British composers.
Baritone William Dazeley and pianist and presenter lain Burnside explore some of the many settings of Housman's poetry.
Benjamin Burrows The Half-Moon Westers Low, My Love; From Far, from Eve and Morning; The Long Road; Bredon Hill
John Ireland We'll to the Woods No
More
CW Orr Hughley Steeple
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs When I Was One-and-Twenty
Graham Peel In Summertime on Bredon
Arnold Bax In the Morning Julian Philips Eclogue
Butterworth Bredon Hill; Oh, Fair
Enough Are Sky and Plain; When the Lad for Longing Sighs; On the Idle
Hill of Summer; With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Repeated from last Wednesday
In the second of five programmes, John Surman examines the work of the baritone saxophone's best-known exponent, Gerry Mulligan , as well as that of Serge Chaloff and Cecil Payne.
Dance Rhythm
Tommy Pearson investigates dance, beginning with popular dance styles of the last 50 years. Producer Chris Wines WEB SITE: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/music_machine/
With Anthony Burton , including
Gade Overture: Echoes of Ossian
Danish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
5.45 Virgil Thomson A Solemn Music; A Joyful Fugue
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, conductor James Bolle
6.30 Schmidt Variations on a Hussar's Song
London Philharmonic, conductor Franz Welser-Most
Producer Nick Morgan
Rodney Slatford introduces the third of five concerts given last month at Manchester's Berlioz/Dutilleux
Festival.
Boris Pergamenshikov (cello), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Dutilleux Cello Concerto (Tout un
Monde Lontain)
Berlioz Trojan March; Royal Hunt and Storm (Les Troyens) Dutilleux Métaboles
Next concert Thursday 7.30pm
At 81, New York writer and critic
Alfred Kazin is the grand old man of American letters. In the first of five conversations with Russell Davies , he remembers Britain during the war, when, as a writer with the American army's Bureau of Current Affairs, he met TS Eliot and Edmund Wilson.
Producer Noah Richler
Carole Cerasi plays music by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert.
Repeat
Introduced by Penny Gore . Vanya Milanova (violin), Caroline Palmer (piano)
Debussy Images (Book 2)
Szymanowski Three Mazurkas, Op 50 Nos 14-16; Myths. Op 30 Repeated tomorrow 2.10pm
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences, with studio guest Photek leading drum and bass in new directions.
Producer Philip Tagney
Kodaly Entrance of the Emperor (Hary Janos )
Bartok Violin Concerto No 1 (1st mvt) Bagatelles, Op 6 Nos 13 and 14 Kodaly Two Folk Songs from "Zabor" Bartok Sonatina for Piano
Kodaly String Quartet No 2 (2nd mvt) Bartok Final Dance ( Wooden Prince) Repeated from last Monday
With Digby Fairweather. A retrospective look at the music of Don Goldie, who died earlier this year. Producer Terry Carter
With Donald Macleod.
1.00 Ragnhild Heiland Sorensen (soprano), Truls Mork (cello), Norwegian Concert Orchestra, conductor Terje Tonnesen
Svendsen Two Icelandic Melodies Hallfrimson Rima Svendsen String
Octet; Cello Concerto
3.00 Schools
3.00 Music Box 3.15 Something to Think About 3.30 The Song Tree
3.45 Stories and Rhymes 3.55 Together Stories 4.10 Singing Together 4.30 Hopscotch 4.45 Scottish Resources 7-9
5.00 Sequence